The Sand Fire over the summer burned tens of thousands of acres and destroyed numerous homes, ravaging the hillsides above Santa Clarita.

The scorched area is now at risk for mudslides during heavy rainfall, leaving homes and neighborhoods below the hillside vulnerable to the effects of the damage.

"Depending on the amount of precipitation or rainfall, it depends on how much is absorbed in the soil itself. But really it's all the material that was burned off," Batt. Chief Darus Ane with the Los Angeles County Fire Department explained.